New Project Closes chapter on Turbo
Well, after giving this some thought I've decided what to do. My turbo kit that Ram built is up for sale in the Black Market.

https://acurazine.com/forums/showthr...37#post5336837

I'm not out of the CL business by a long shot. I've been looking for a decent wreck for over a year and finally found one. Here is a pic of the salvaged CLS I picked up last week. The plan is to make it a RWD with my 3.5 I've been working on forever. It goes to the shop once I move the turbo.

Here's the car, it came from Georgia in the Atlanta area, don't know if it was a members car from Acurazine.

Don't asked for parts from this car as I'm not ready to part it out yet, that will come but I have my work cut out for me on removing the turbo from the other CL.

 

Ahhhhhhh shit.....

 

nice..

 

Why not mount the motor in the rear seats/trunk area and make it a mid engine/rear wheel drive car

 

This should be fun...

What's gonna happen with the silver one?



*Any one that's thinking the SMR was my car... It's not.

 

I've never been a fan of that kind of setup and it would be cramped imo. I'm talking full cage on this car and utilizing a Powerglide tranny, just need an engine plate.




gonna keep the ssm as a daily driver and put it back to stock.

 

Sweet! Now the thought is turning to reality.

2nd gen CL will = rear wheel drive.

 

Very interesting.

Any ideas on how your gonna set up the rear? Planning on a solid rear axle or an independent suspension set-up?

 

good stuff. i always love opening up your threads.

if i ever win the lottery, i'd make a project CL too.. i would adapt the RL AWD system to the CL.

 

Very nice...the salvaged CL looks to be in very decent condition.

 

why not keep the turbo to boost the 3.5?

 

 

exciting. Sorry to hear the boosted beast is going to be dismantled.

in honor:

 

Can't wait to see how the RWD turns out. Good luck Jim.

and damn do I want your turbo

 

a 9 inch rear with 4 link.

It actually is in fairly good condition...it drives and shifts OK, drove it down the street, motor sounds good. I noticed the tranny didn't have the oil jet, but the tranny looks to be either new or most definetly recently installed as it's shiny compared to the motor. Did they ever come up with a tranny that doesn't need the oil jet?


the motor will be in a different configuration and the turbo as it is now would not fit.

 

Spinning the orientation of the motor 90 degrees huh?

 

ThinJim - That is awesome, doesn't look like any frame damage at all. The structural integrity should be fine for your projects.

Also, Not sure about the oil jet. I have been fortunate enough to have a 6 speed. What sort of transmission are you planning with the new beast?

 

ThinJim you the man!!!!

 

I know that wouldnt be much of a problem for you since you're talking about making your new one a RWD...

 

Rwd Cl???

I now know that if I see a CL around here doing a burnout with the rear tires, I'ma know who it is.

 

I don't envision this car being driven on the street...

 

Hmmm, well that wouldn't be a problem anyway, the only near-by drag (1/8th mile) strip (soon to be 1/4 mile) just opened less than 4 miles from my house on us-27.

 

 

I am not sure if any of you guys have seen this
Its a rwd ls-1 prelude. He hasn't finished it yet but he works pretty quick.
I have always thought the 2nd gen cl as a big brother to the 4th gen lude. Thats why I am soon upgrading.

ls-1 prelude rwd

 

10 miles from my house. I didn't know they were going to make it a 1/4 mile track. You sure?

 

RWD

Man I always thought that the CL would be a nice RWD like the SC or the 240 style staggered for sure, good luck keep us posted with pics

 

man, this is the stuff of dreams. props for you even considering undertaking this sort of project. i can't wait to see the progress. will you be doing a trnny swap with a 6 speed while you're at it?

 

Nope he said in post #4 of this thread that he is planning on a powerglide tranny

 

2 speed FTW!

 

i heard it was going to be a quarter mile soon enough...sucks that im moving to g-ville soon prolly never see your beast in real life action or the 1/4 mile
well i might.... in six years

 

Sweet. I know a couple people that have done such projects. One is a local car repaid guy. He has a Ford Festiva with a Mazda 323 1.6L V6 (smallest V6 ever put in a production vehicle) mounted in the rear with a turbo and NOS (and full roll cage). And the most badass of all, the SHOgun.



What do ya get when they throw a Yamaha built SHO engine in the back of a Ford Festiva along with the SHO suspension? How about a 12 second car that can pull 1.04g in the corners (even today less then 5 production cars can beat that).

This is one of the 8 originally made (Jay Leno owned #3 but later blew it up with a bit too much NOS). It was supercharged and runs 425HP (about what you get when you supercharge the SHO engine with no other mods). It'd eat up just about any Ferrari or Porsche out there.

[img]http://www.motorcities.com/media/image/640/05J98293125700A/1990-Ford-Festiva-ShoGun-A-640.jpeg[/img

Why not make it real interesting and go with the dual engine, one in the front and one in the back? Someone over on the SHOForum.com is doin it (fairly far along in the project). Auto tranny in the reat and manual in the front.

 

Na, I'm to conventional on what I want my cars to do. Besides, that would be too complicated. I'd like to have a consistant mid 9 sec car that looks good and is a one off for the most part.


Haven't seen you in a while, whatever happened to nopiguy, glenn. and what's FTW?

 

FTW = For The Win

 

they're turning it into a 1/4 mile?!! Thats awesome!

 

Not 100% sure about the 1/4 mile, but thats what everyone is telling me! I'll have to find out in person for sure as soon as I can

 

updates?

 

 

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werd^.

Where are you getting the work done if you don't mind sharing, I plan on keeping this car for a long time and might want to do a 3.5 conversion down the road.

 

rwd bad fucking asssssss